Psalms 88:1
I will sing of your mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare your truth with my mouth to all generations. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 49:18waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat + 5:11 Some read μαχὰλ, or μαχὰθ, as if from מכרח cibus. as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.
1 Chronicles 6:18The sons of Caath; Ambram, and Issaar, Chebron, and Oziel.
Psalms 22:2In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest. 1
Psalms 27:1To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit. 1
Psalms 42:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:1
This psalm is a lamentation, one of the most melancholy of all the psalms; and it does not conclude, as usually the melancholy psalms do, with the least intimation of comfort or joy, but, from first to last, it is mourning and woe. It is not upon a public account that the psalmist here complains (here is no mention of the afflictions of the church), but only upon a personal account, especially trouble of mind, and the grief impressed upon his spirits both by his outward afflictions and by the remembrance of his… Read the whole commentary →